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Professor bpencer, seconded by Professor Bragg, the following 

 additional officers for 1892-3 were elected : — Treasurer, Mr. H 

 C. Russell ; Secretary for Tasmania, Mr. Alexander Morton ; 

 for New Zealand, Professors Packer and Thomas, and Mr. 

 Brandon ; for Victoria, Mr. A. H. S. Lucas ; for Queensland, 

 Mr. John Shirley. The meeting closed with votes of thanks 

 to the principal officials. 



One of the most striking features of the Hobart gathering 

 was the well-attended and successful session of the literary 

 section mider the able presidency of Professor Morris. It 

 commanded the largest body of adherents, and its papers Avere 

 discussed with a point and zest which left little to be desired. 

 Lady Hamilton, the Ven. Archdeacon Hales, Mr. Justice Deni- 

 son. Professor Bragg, and Messrs. Roe, Piguenit, and T. A. 

 Browne (" Rolf Boldrewood ") were regular attendants in this 

 section. As an outcome of these successful gatherings, on the 

 motion of the Bishop of Tasmania, it was decided to form a 

 Home Reading Union of Australasia. A committee met on 

 Thursday and Friday, January 14th and loth, at which Messrs. 

 Roe and Shirley represented Queensland, and drew up a code of 

 rules for the union, in which it is hoped to include all existing 

 literary circles and reading unions in Australasia, for whom 

 a journal on Chautauquan lines will be published. For the 

 fortnight following the actual session of the Association, a series 

 of excursions had been planned, of which the principal were : — 

 Jan. 13th, Mount Wellington ; 14th, Mount Rumney ; 15th, 

 The Salmon Ponds and New Norfolk ; 16th, Lake St. Clair ; 

 18th, Port Davey and Mount Zeehan ; 25tli, Mount Bischotf and 

 the N.W. coast. Pamphlets containing full information concern- 

 ing the last four trips were issued to members on arrival in 

 Hobart. 



About 500 members attended the fourth or Hobart gather- 

 ing, of whom 17 were from Queensland. At Sydney, the 

 Association obtained a grant of £1200 from the N.S.W. 

 ■Government, and at Melbourne a grant of £1000 ; the Tasmanian 

 Government made no donation, but franked all the postage of 

 the Society for the year, and has agreed to print the whole o 

 the proceedings. 



(Signed on beh.\lf of the Delegates) H. W. NORMAN 



